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• Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin where you are.

  K. P. Yohannan

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• Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

  Rupert Sheldrake

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Marcus Annaeus Seneca

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• G-d tests us I pleasant surroundings. We become infatuated with the surroundings and forget about the test.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Our problem is not only that industrial societies have failed to keep all of their promises, but that they have succeeded in some ways beyond all expectations. Abundance was once a distant dream, to be postponed to a hereafter of milk and honey; today, most Americans are affluent. Universal mass education was once a utopian goal…

  Kenneth Keniston

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• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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• Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

  John Stuart Mill

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• It is better to live rich than to die rich.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.

  Thomas Fuller

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• If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you t’other World?

  Benjamin Franklin

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• In every well governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. Anatole France Penguin Island who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Wealth maketh many friends

  Holy Bible

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• Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

  Francis Bacon

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• Every man knows G-D is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

  Jean Anouilh

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• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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